To associate freely (FOLLOWING THE KAREN HORNEY TEXT)

To associate freely (FOLLOWING THE KAREN HORNEY TEXT)
means an endeavor on the part of the patient to ex-
press without reserve, and in the sequence in which it
emerges, everything that comes into his mind, regardless
of whether it is or appears trivial, off the point, incoher-
cnt, irrational, indiscreet, tactless, embarrassing, humili-
ating. It may not be unnecessary to add that "everything"
is meant literally. It includes not only fleeting and diffuse
thoughts but also specific ideas and `memories of inci-
dents that have occurred since the last interview, mem-
ories of experiences at any period of life, thoughts about
self and others, reactions to the analyst or the analytical
situation, beliefs in regard to religion, morals, politics,
art, wishes and plans for the future, fantasies past and
present, and, of course, dreams. It is particularly impor-
tant that the patient express every feeling that emerges,
such as fondness, hope, triumph, discouragement, re-
lief, suspicion, anger, as well as every diffuse or spe-
cific thought. Of course the patient will have objections
to voicing certain things, for one reason or another, but
he should express these objections instead of using them
to withhold the particular thought or feeling.
Free association differs from our customary way of
thinking or talking not only in its frankness and unre-
servedness, but also in its apparent lack of direction. In
discussing a problem, talking about our plans for the
week end, explaining the value of merchandise to a cus-
tomer, we are accustomed to stick fairly closely to the
point. From the diverse currents that pass through our
minds we tend to select those elements for expression
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which are pertinent to the situation. Even when talk-
ing with our closest friends we select what to express and
what to omit, even though we are not aware of it. In
free association, however, there is an effort to express
everything that passes through the mind, regardless of
where it may lead. _
Like many other human endeavors, free association
can be used for constructive or for obstructive purposes.
If the patient has an unambiguous determination to re-
veal himself to the analyst his associations will be mean-
ingful and suggestive. If he has stringent interests not to
face certain unconscious factors his associations will be
unproductive. These interests may be so prevailing that
the good sense of free association is turned into non-
sense. What results then is a flight of meaningless ideas
having merely a mock resemblance to their true purpose.
Thus the value of free association depends entirely on
the spirit in which it is done. If the spirit is one of ut-
most frankness and sincerity, of determination to face
one’s own problems, and of willingness to open oneself
to another human being, then the process can serve the
purpose for which it is intended.

Free association, of a depth kind, your content output is indeed closer to the dream and fantasy worlds .

If you are truly achieving free association, of a depth kind, your content output is indeed closer to the dream and fantasy worlds than the one of your everyday mind usage. At some moment you might feel it’s silly or close to madness to persist. Depth level free association is not exactly a waking dream, because much of one normal personality shapes where and to what extent it may provide or block insight. And you can turn it off as you wish. Also it suggested spaced daily, half hour sessions is the best way to avoid burn out or the unwanted obsessional flooding that a few may be prone to. One size does not fit all and common sense must prevail. You have a responsibility to your self not to overdo any procedure of any kind.

Everyone can be assumed to have resistances, which as vague as the term is, implies a force of a 'anti-insight' nature also that is a basic human mind event.

Happiness or unhappiness results in how one handles effects of real life as internally measured against hidden repressed content of the personal unconscious (Freud) and the even less accessible ancestor set content and its recurring pressures. These pressures as proposed by Szondi are to be identified, in respect to their directional content. That they are also psychiatric conditions in their exaggerated form is almost beside the point.
( a confusion that persists, even with those who write on the subject).

It is that they represent forms ancestor gene passed, as today’s needs, strivings and drives that also belong to a characteristic type.

In this view, self-analysis is interminable and always present. Just as your drives are always present. However its inner connections and vicissitudes can and should be improved as best one can, thus this recommendation is also a mental hygiene procedure.

Self-sabotage –unpleasant as that sounds is more common that one thinks, it also applies potentially to any self-improvement efforts one seeks to make. It is of course resistance in another form. It is a realty you need to recognize.

Often when one is advancing at a comfortable pace, systematic some of the many forms of neurotic sabotage may interfere, such a perverse pleasure in reducing the promise any implied advantage to absurdity. Or the claiming of total disillusionment, hopelessness and despair. When it is not totally the truth. Or even claiming some other thing has transformed them miraculously!

The effect of interruptions of self-analysis is the temporally losing of the gains from the insight discoveries made to that point. This kind of resistance becomes even clearer when episodically alcohol and drugs are used as if chemical hammers to make them feel better and at the same time to avoid and re-repress the key conflicts that they were close to understanding. One should note that the term 'backsliding' applies not only to alcoholics, but all the rest of us in respect to any desires for an inner change.

At some point, an interrupted self-analysis or analysis can and should recommence, We learn from therapists that interrupted therapies on restarting often need a kind of warm up, with a tacking self doubts, guilt . and negative feelings that followed the interrupted sessions. This is relevant no doubt, in cases when the same type thing happens in a depth level self-analysis.

Complete free association with self-expression

Complete free association with self-expression WOULD BE
a strange and mind cataclysmic event should that ever happen.

What is being suggested is you build up a skill level beyond wherever it is
at present. It is probable that if you already have an interest in your own mental life, you have better self-analytical abilities to start with than many. It may come as a surprise that when it comes to your own really personal content that you will not do as well as you expected. This does not mean the method is wrong or not for you. It is that that you have encountered resistance, which moves just ahead, confusing and misdirecting you with not only with disguised primary process language (as we learned from Freud's method of dream analysis). But also hidden ancestor set preferences healthy and unhealthy, normal and perverse described in Szondian psychology. These internal insights unravel slowly and become apparent with persistence and multiple reexaminations. The neurotic choices and ancestor set deeper ones move together as the hidden choice makers in love, friendship, symptom, and occupation.

Jung's Word Association Test. (ANSWER AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE

Jung's Word Association Test. (ANSWER AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE WITH THE FIRST WORD THAT OCCURS TO YOUR MIND) NOTE AND WRITE DOWN.

1. Appropriateness of reply.
2. Delays.
3. Blocking.
4. Comfort with word or the reply.
5. Does words with reactions connect to what is on your mind-recent or past?.
6. Make a new list from the reaction words. Repeat process.
7. Save both lists and repeat process a few days later.
8. Has some words changed in reaction: as now some words before reactive are not now reactive or vice versa.



frog
green
to part
water
hunger
to sing
white
dead
child
long
to take care
ship
pencil
pay
sad
window
plum
friendly
to marry
to cook
house
to ask
sweetheart
cold
glass
stem
to quarrel
to dance
fur
village
big
lake
carrot
sick
to paint
pride
part
to cook
bold
ink
flower
angry
to beat
needle
box
to swim
wild
voyage
family
blue
to wash
lamp
cow
to sin
friend
bread
luck
rich
lie
tree
behavior
to prick
narrow
pity
brother
yellow
to fear
mountain
stork
to die
false
salt
anxiety
new
to kiss
custom
bride
to pray
pure
money
door
foolish
to choose
pamphlet
hay
despise
contented
finger
ridicule
expensive
to sleep
bird
month
to fall
nice
book
women
unjust
to abuse

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